Women Entrepreneurs Shark-Tank Program in Niger

Deadline: 16-Jun-22

The Public Diplomacy Section of U.S. Embassy Niamey of the U.S. Department of State is announcing an open competition for organizations to submit applications to develop and implement a nationwide program to support women entrepreneurs.

This program will be designed to support women-owned businesses which often struggle to get access to capital, markets, and products and generally lack business training. The program will provide training and mentorship to women business owners from all eight regions of Niger and will also include a local shark tank followed by a nationwide shark tank event where finalists from will pitch their business to the public and on television. The top two or three from each training site will compete in a nationwide event in Niamey.

Objectives

Proposals for projects must focus on one or more of the priority entrepreneurship training and

target audiences specified below:

Train women entrepreneurs on how to pitch and sell their businesses by developing medium- and long-term financial and business plans Understand and implement the best practices for scaling their businesses and even thinking globally;
Proposes a road map for Nigerien entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.
Encourage greater market freedoms and access to capital and government services for small and medium business owners Involve the American private sector and/or American business and economic theory and practice.